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By the People For the Children

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts by Slate Audio

Jul 25, 202640:52Society & Culture

In 1867, an 8-year-old girl named Elizabeth Turner became the epicenter of a legal battle that would help define what freedom really meant after the Civil War. Days after Maryland abolished slavery, her former enslaver h...

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By the People For the Children is an episode from Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts by Slate Audio. In 1867, an 8-year-old girl named Elizabeth Turner became the epicenter of a legal battle that would help define wh...

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Published Jul 25, 2026, 40:52 long, audio available.